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 08/04/2004 10:24:30 AM · #26
I drink John Sleeman's Beer, Sleeman Cream Ale.

AND I'll occasionally drink Rye...uh...I mean Canadian Whiskey to those south of the 49th.

AND while we may spell beer the same way, we certainly don't make it the same way. For years I agreed that most American beer in like sex in a canoe...

08/04/2004 10:24:48 AM · #27
Hey, too many people in these parts also claim to work at "Fords" as in Ford Motor Company....so some of us 'round here have become sensitive to extraneous 's' usage!

Rest assured that I closely guard the proud Labatt name south (generally) of your border...possessive = Labatt's Labatt Blue...plural = Labatt Blues??...I like threads about nothing almost as much as I like beer. :-)
 08/04/2004 10:33:12 AM · #28
Originally posted by notonline:
carat vs. karat actually are these not 2 different things??? one is a vegetable and the other is a quality or rating of a diamond???


Carat = unit of gemological weight (e.g. 2-carat diamond)
Karat = unit of gold purity (e.g. 18-karat gold)
Caret = punctuation mark (similar/same as circumflex, e.g. û)
Carrot = root vegetable high in beta carotene
 08/04/2004 10:41:46 AM · #29
Originally posted by Jacko:
I think we can all get along since we spell "beer" the same way.


You mean cerveza?
 08/04/2004 10:46:05 AM · #30
While we're on this type of kick, nothing grates on my nerves more than people pronouncing "pictures" as "pitchers".

I used run a minilab that was located in a big store. When people would ask for their "pitchers" I would tell them that we had pitchers, and that they were over in housewares.
08/04/2004 10:57:17 AM · #31
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
While we're on this type of kick, nothing grates on my nerves more than people pronouncing "pictures" as "pitchers".

I used run a minilab that was located in a big store. When people would ask for their "pitchers" I would tell them that we had pitchers, and that they were over in housewares.


Oh, that's a really good one! What about telescopic lenses? It's TELEPHOTO people.

And, a personal aggregation of mine is how the American marketers changed the pronunciation of Konica to make it better match American phonics.

The Japanese say, kon-i-ca, yet the Americans call it Kon-nee-ka. It hurts my ears! Make it stop! Make it stop!

I suppose it goes with Japan versus Nihon? Persia versus Iran?, etc.

Is language not a wonderful thing?

Message edited by author 2004-08-04 10:58:50.
 08/04/2004 11:02:36 AM · #32
Originally posted by Morgan:
Oh, that's a really good one! What about telescopic lenses? It's TELEPHOTO people.

What they discuss here might push that boundary ...
 08/04/2004 11:03:23 AM · #33
Originally posted by Pedro:
yo cold leave the U ot of most of yor words and save mch more if yo want to get serios abot it.

:D


Funniest thing i have seen in ages
must get out more.......
 08/04/2004 11:05:27 AM · #34
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
--Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
--Buck Henry

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
--Doug Larson

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
--Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
--Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
--George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1946

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Message edited by author 2004-08-04 11:15:02.
 08/04/2004 11:45:04 AM · #35
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Originally posted by Jacko:
I think we can all get along since we spell "beer" the same way.


You mean cerveza?


No, he means beir.
 08/04/2004 11:52:03 AM · #36
Catastrophe - The prize for the cat with the cutest bum.
 08/04/2004 11:53:56 AM · #37
Originally posted by Morgan:
Luckily, I drink Labatts Blue. Whew!


What's that I'm always hearing... Drink Labatt Blue, 10 million Indians can't be wrong.
 08/04/2004 11:56:30 AM · #38
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
While we're on this type of kick, nothing grates on my nerves more than people pronouncing "pictures" as "pitchers".

I used run a minilab that was located in a big store. When people would ask for their "pitchers" I would tell them that we had pitchers, and that they were over in housewares.


When they asked for pics did you send them to hardware? Snaps get sent to crafts?
 08/04/2004 12:08:39 PM · #39
Along the same train of though...and this may be going way out on a limb, and I will probably be shot down in flames for even the mere suggestion...but I am wondering just how difficult is it to pick up a dictionary or do a search online to make sure your challenge entry's title is spelled correctly? Whether it is or is not in your native language, or because it's a difficult word, or because it is a full moon...whatever the reason...can we all (myself included) be more careful about spelling? Please? It is just about the only real pet peeve I ever have about entries, as I am not a cat or flower hater, and don't tend to rant a lot...but this is my one tiny request. I drive my family crazy by not ever shopping or eating in places that have words misspelled on their signs...I know, it's insane. But anyway...please?

Whew...I feel better now. ;o)
 08/04/2004 12:11:15 PM · #40
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by notonline:
carat vs. karat actually are these not 2 different things??? one is a vegetable and the other is a quality or rating of a diamond???


Carat = unit of gemological weight (e.g. 2-carat diamond)
Karat = unit of gold purity (e.g. 18-karat gold)
Caret = punctuation mark (similar/same as circumflex, e.g. û)
Carrot = root vegetable high in beta carotene


Moron = carrot in welsh

Which is why I often giggle like a little girl when someone attempts to insult another by calling them a moron.
 08/04/2004 12:20:13 PM · #41
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in

waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht

the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a

total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae

the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a

wlohe. amzanig huh?
 08/04/2004 12:28:51 PM · #42
Originally posted by laurielblack:
but I am wondering just how difficult is it to pick up a dictionary or do a search online to make sure your challenge entry's title is spelled correctly?


For a few years now I've been using ie Spell. It's a spell checker for Internet Explorer. It's not perfect and you have to remember to use it but it comes in so handy to those of us who have had our sense of correct spelling destroyed by reading a never ending torrent of bad spelling in email, student papers, memos, and the like.

//www.iespell.com/
 08/04/2004 12:32:45 PM · #43
hmmm...the beerer i drink, the getter i drunk !!!
 08/04/2004 12:47:13 PM · #44
Originally posted by Jacko:
I think we can all get along since we spell "beer" the same way.


ROFL! Cheers! :)
 08/04/2004 12:48:49 PM · #45
Originally posted by OneSweetSin:
Originally posted by BooZon:
I m learning a heap tonight :) I had no idea that "tire" was an alternative for "tyre". When I think of "tire" I think of fatigue.


Oh wow I just learned something...I think...I thought tire was the thing on the car that goes flat and then gets taken off the car and thrown into the heap on the front lawn....

Oh and fatigue I though was the fancy word for them thare huntin clothes the boys ware to fight them thare Iraqis.


ROFL ROFL ROFL!!!!
 08/04/2004 12:54:51 PM · #46
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in

waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht

the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a

total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae

the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a

wlohe. amzanig huh?


vrey! taht is ralely naet!
 08/04/2004 01:16:32 PM · #47
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by Morgan:
Luckily, I drink Labatts Blue. Whew!


What's that I'm always hearing... Drink Labatt Blue, 10 million Indians can't be wrong.


um...that's Pilsner. :D
 08/05/2004 02:47:48 AM · #48
Originally posted by Morgan:

- sceptic vs. skeptic


I don't think these are two spellings for one and the same thing.

"skeptic" has to do with what comes out of your mouth, "sceptic" has to do with the other end of the digestive system.

Message edited by author 2004-08-05 02:48:01.
 08/05/2004 03:00:07 AM · #49
Originally posted by willem:
Originally posted by Morgan:

- sceptic vs. skeptic


I don't think these are two spellings for one and the same thing.

"skeptic" has to do with what comes out of your mouth, "sceptic" has to do with the other end of the digestive system.


You're thinking of SEPTIC as in septic tank.
 08/05/2004 06:43:17 AM · #50
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by willem:
Originally posted by Morgan:

- sceptic vs. skeptic


I don't think these are two spellings for one and the same thing.

"skeptic" has to do with what comes out of your mouth, "sceptic" has to do with the other end of the digestive system.


You're thinking of SEPTIC as in septic tank.


Too funny. A good laugh to begin the day. ROFL
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